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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Sunnyvale, California-based InSilixa has received funding to develop a point-of-care rapid molecular diagnostic assay for oral human papillomavirus detection, the company announced today.

The $224,764 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research grant was awarded by the National Institutes of Health.

The assay is "a potential new tool to screen oral specimens such as saliva for cancer-causing HPV types and to risk stratify those persons found to be positive,” Gary Schoolnik, chief medical officer of InSilixa, said in a statement.